So the fact that the scientific community covered up a hoax for 40 years is fine with you. No red flags. Lets agree to disagree then.
It wasn’t a ‘cover up’. “scientists increasingly regarded Piltdown as an enigmatic aberration inconsistent with the path of hominid evolution as demonstrated by
fossils found elsewhere.” Limited data is ambiguous. Multiple theories could produce the same data (ie be correct). This hoax (& I assume other data) supported one
theory, “large modern brain preceded the modern omnivorous diet”). As such it was accepted & defended.
